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Do not kill Waterfall Giant just because you can. Check the next-turn explosion first or the deathrattle can end the run.

Prepare for bosses with warnings, checklist items, and card recommendations.

Defect turns a small Focus lead into a whole fight plan. Good decks either scale orb output every turn or compress the fight with energy and zero-cost tempo.

Scale Focus and orb slots so Lightning, Frost, and Dark orbs solve the fight passively.

Chain cheap cards, energy spikes, and recursion to win before the enemy plan stabilizes.

Ironclad wins by turning HP and cards into permanent combat advantage: Strength makes attacks matter, Exhaust trims the deck, and Barricade-style block engines buy enough time for boss fights.

Use Exhaust to shrink the deck, draw more cards, and turn defense into damage.

Stack Strength, then convert it into one or two turns of overwhelming attack damage.

Necrobinder rewards planning around delayed payoffs. Sacrifice and graveyard tools can snowball, but the deck must keep enough immediate defense to survive setup turns.

Delay enemy plans while countdown and graveyard effects line up a lethal future turn.

Trade temporary resources for graveyard and sacrifice payoffs that snowball over the fight.

Regent is a scaling planner: stars and created weapons create inevitability, while Forge and Prophesize let the deck line up a decisive future turn.

Forge and weapon creation turn future turns into reliable damage and block packages.

Build around Star and cosmic payoffs to create one huge late-fight advantage turn.

Silent is strongest when the deck commits early: Poison solves long fights, shivs and Accuracy solve burst turns, and discard/draw keeps the best cards cycling.

Use Poison as the win condition while Weak, Block, and draw carry the setup turns.

Create many small attacks, multiply them with Accuracy-style scaling, then finish with burst payoffs.